This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness, QShine 2013, which was held in National Capital Region (NCR) of India during January 2013. The 87 revised full papers were carefully selected from 169 submissions and present the recent technological developments in broadband high-speed networks, peer-to-peer networks, and wireless and mobile networks.The proposed algorithm, DSG-PC, uses scheduled carriers to transfer messages
in an intermittently connected network, ... is an especially designed drop-in node
following a fixed trajectory over fixed time interval and has large buffer capacity.